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...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index, a measure of the health of the industry, rose to 49.7 in February from 48.8 in January....
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...S&P Global’s Construction PMI index rose to 49.7 in February, well ahead of the 49 expected by analysts and just below the 50 level that separates expansion from contraction....
...The S&P Global UK construction purchasing managers’ index rose to 48.8 in January, up from 46.8 in December and the highest since August 2023....
...The S&P Global UK construction purchasing managers’ index rose to 46.8 in December, up from 45.5 in November and its highest level in four months....
...S&P Global’s flash eurozone composite purchasing managers’ index, which measures business activity across the bloc, rose to an eight-month high of 48.9 this month, up from 47.9 in January....
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...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index — a measure of monthly growth — fell to 45.5 in November from 45.6 the previous month....
...In the S&P 500, 64 per cent of stocks have crossed above their 200-day moving average, which is above the historical mean: Every S&P sector has positive returns over the period....
...Financial markets closed Germany: monthly import prices data US: monthly construction spending figures plus final S&P Global manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data Tuesday EU, France, Germany...
...The rest of the eurozone “saw the best performance . . . despite growth slowing slightly”, S&P said....
...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....
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...S&P 500 hit an all-time high on Friday but, as my colleagues Nicholas Megaw and Kate Duguid have pointed out, stocks limped to the summit....
...But, as S&P puts it when explaining why U.S....
...S&P Global and Hamburg Commercial Bank’s Germany construction purchasing managers’ index for December showed a sector deep in contraction at the end of 2023 with a “bleak outlook” for 2024....
...The stock has gained nearly 40 per cent over the past 12 months, outpacing the S&P 500’s 20 per cent rise....
...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index fell marginally to 45.5 in November from 45.6 the previous month....
...This matched a wider trend in which S&P 500 spending on buybacks fell 14 per cent on the previous year....
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